Lord Randolph, has infected the Fourth Party, and the hangers-on
of the Fourth Party, with his own choice lan- guage. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff spoke at Birkenhead on Wednesday of the time having come when the people should smite to get rid "of the imposture of a Government which had ruled the country for four years ;" and expressed his profound *surprise that "so notorious an incapable as Lord Ripon" should have introduced the Ilbert Bill. Whether that was meant as praise of the Ilbert Bill or not, we do not know, but one would suppose that Sir H. D. Wolff would have felt no surprise if a "notorious incapable" had introduced an -exceedingly bad Bill, and would have felt much if such a one had introduced an exceedingly good one. Mr. MacIver, M.P., at the same meeting, remarked that the Government cared "for nothing but the loaves and fishes of office,"—a very dull Sort of taunt, which it is difficult to conceive that even Mr. MacIver, M.P., seriously levelled at them. Not that we would pretend to fathom Mr. Macher's capacity in that direction.
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